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Colophon :: Colophon (n.) An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book..

Epigraphy :: Epigraphy (n.) The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

Inscriptive :: Inscriptive (a.) Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.

Tablet :: Tablet (n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture..

Inscription :: Inscription (n.) The act or process of inscribing.

Epigraph :: Epigraph (n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication..

Chronogram :: Chronogram (n.) The record or inscription made by a chronograph.

Legend :: Legend (n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration..

Sphenography :: Sphenography (n.) The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters..

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription..

Copy :: Copy (n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off..

Cuniform :: Cuniform (a.) Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them..

Record :: Record (v. t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events..

Illegible :: Illegible (a.) Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription..

Antiquary :: Antiquary (n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity..

Transferography :: Transferography (n.) The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers..

Himyaritic :: Himyaritic (a.) Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia..

Chronogram :: Chronogram (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632..

Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) An inscription written around anything.

Paleography :: Paleography (n.) The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics..

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